Gardening Quotes · Page 42

“what you are searching for,you already have,in the alchemy of your garden”

— Robin Craig Clark

Put flowers on my grave, so for once I might look beautiful

— Anonymous

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

— Michael Pollan

“Here is a good philosophy of life: Enjoy the road with flowers; enjoy the road with stones!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

— Anonymous

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

— Anonymous

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

— Rumer Godden

“Don’t kill doves in the garden. / You kill one and the others won’t come.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“what tipped me off was the pink nighty I was wearing and the abundance of flowers decorating my room.”

— Graham Parke

They stand so still in the thunder air, all strangers to one another as the green grass glows upwards, strangers in the…

— David Herbert Lawrence

I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in…

— Ernest Rhys

“Riding horseback along a country lane I saw wild roses in bloom, against an old stone wall. The expensive, improved varieties in…

— James Webb Young

“If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the…

— Debasish Mridha

“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath…

— James Grahame

I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like…

— Novella Carpenter

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of…

— Therese of Lisieux

“Krishnamurti, a great Indian sage, once said: “You can take a piece of wood that you brought back from your garden, and…

— Julien Smith

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind…

— Colin Wilson

For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum…

— Philip Gambone

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be…

— Charles Dudley Warner

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my…

— Dylan Thomas

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

— Matt Haig

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

— John Burroughs

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

— E. M. Forster

“Homesickness is a real sickness—the ache of the uprooted plant.”

— Stephen King

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

— Alexander MacLaren

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

— Douglas Wilson

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. -Emperor

— Mulan

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

— Kristin Cashore

Liberty guest amiable, Plants both elbows on the table

— Voltaire

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

— DJ Khaled

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If the seed of failure is watered with effort & action, plant of success takes shape.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

— Elizabeth George